Past Book Picks

Book Picks for Aug 09, 2010

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Andrew Harvey and Karuna Erickson, $17.95

With detailed descriptions and photographs of fifty yoga poses and their alchemical effects on the body and consciousness, Heart Yoga presents yoga as a simple meditative practice leading to an experience of heartfelt bliss. Spiritual writer Andrew Harvey and yoga teacher Karuna Erickson link the ancient spiritual traditions of hatha yoga to contemporary life. Including excerpts of poetic sacred writing, the book reminds readers that the purpose of yoga is unity with the divine, the goal of mystics from all traditions.

Edward Malkowski, $24.00

Traditional Egyptologists have long resisted the notion that the architectural achievements of the ancient Egyptians required the existence of a much more sophisticated technology than existed at that time; yet the ancient Egyptians themselves recorded that their civilization resided in the shadow of a kingdom of "gods" whose reign ended thousands of years before their first dynasty. Edward Malkowski in Ancient Egypt 39,000 BCE examines the evidence that the civilization responsible for the magnificent Egyptian monuments is much older than presently believed, explaining who these prehistoric people were, what happened to them, and why they build a series of pyramids along the west bank of the Nile River.

Bruce Lipton and Steve Bhaerman, $16.95

Many of the defining ideas and institutions of our culture are breaking dow--part of a natural process of clearing what no longer serves us to make room for a new way of being. In Spontaneous Evolution, biologist Bruce Lipton and commentator Steve Bhaerman offer an insightful, playful, and ultimately hopeful look at our unfolding destiny and how we can actively co-create the world to come. Now in paperback!